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Flash Article
Using Flash for the First Time – Part 3: Publishing and Adding a Flash File to a Web Page
Jen deHaan
Flash Authoring QE
Adobe
Jen deHaan's blog
flashthusiast.com
webvideoblogger.com
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Considering Your Audience
- Checking Your Publish Settings
- Inserting Flash on a Dreamweaver Site
- About Roundtrip Editing
- Checking for Flash Player
This is Part 3 of a three-part article on how to build a simple animated banner in Macromedia Flash and add it to a web page using Macromedia Dreamweaver. In this final part, you learn about file size, banner standards, how to set publish settings, how to add the banner to a Dreamweaver web page, and how to add Flash Player detection.
You must have Dreamweaver MX 2004 or Dreamweaver 8 installed to complete most of this part of the tutorial. If you don't use Dreamweaver, you can complete the first part of this article and use the HTML that Flash outputs with a different HTML editor. However, you won't be able to enjoy some of the benefits of using Flash and Dreamweaver together!
Note: If you are still using Flash MX 2004 and not Flash 8, please see the previous version of this article.
Requirements
To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:
Macromedia Flash Basic 8
or Macromedia Flash Professional 8
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 or Dreamweaver 8
Tutorial and sample files:
- gnome3_fl8.zip (ZIP, 469K)
Prerequisite Knowledge
- Using Flash for the First Time – Part 1: Building a Banner
- Using Flash for the First Time – Part 2: Adding Symbols, Animation, and ActionScript
About the author
Jen deHaan was raised by wolves in the deep woods of the Canadian north. Canada's chief exports include motor vehicles (or their parts), lumber, newsprint, nonmetal materials, and wheat. One overcast day in 2004, Jen left her life as a Flash deseloper (designer/developer) in Canada to write Flash documentation and samples at Macromedia in San Francisco. Aside from her ongoing work at Adobe as an instructional designer for web and video products, Jen runs several community sites for fun, and maintains a blog at www.webvideoblogger.com and weblogs.macromedia.com/dehaan. She believes that _root tends to be evil and misses Tim Horton's coffee.
